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That looks rather like my magnex, been under there since I bought the car almost 22 years ago and still looks the same…..brilliant addition 👍

Thanks Hasan, I'll start searching through my spare relay collection for one with a click then!

On the subject of indicators, do everyone else’s make noise? Mine are silent when flashing but I don’t remember if it was always that way, has my relay lost it’s click???

When your car gets to come out, love it! The biggest problem I have with the a/c is that it’s a Frankenstein job, conversations seem to go this way: Tony: I’d like to get my a/c re-gassed please. Salesperson: No problem sir, could your confirm age and registration etc. Tony: Gives details but points out this won’t help them as the installed system came from a 96 Passat VR6 and also that the condenser and drier have been replaced with items from Mk4 Golf and the pipe work modified to suit. Salesperson (after consulting a wiser person): Sorry sir, we can’t help you as we wouldn’t know how much gas to put in, it has to be weighed you see. And so it continues. I even had one tell me recently they wouldn’t know which gas to use as there’s a new one on the market since around 2017, even though I’ve told them it’s a 95 car with a 96 system!!! At least Mick Farrar, whilst he’s booked up for the next few weeks, is prepared to suck it and see, to have an feel for the job and charge the system until the pressure is something like right.

Too right it is! I then drove over to the guy not a million miles from you at Beighton to see about getting the a/c gassed but he can’t fit me in til 26th August 🙄

Another year, another MOT 👍

Mine does exactly the same thing, strangely enough when turning around on my own drive, not really heard it anywhere else! Spec sounds similar, 288 brakes, R32 rear bushes, Powerflex front bushes. I can’t imagine where there’s play as nothing under there has more than maybe 5K miles on it. I convinced myself it was a wheel bearing, although they’re all new, but couldn’t find it when I tried them and tightened everything up. I was hoping you were going to solve it for me when you mentioned the same problem, at least I don’t have to buy drive shafts to try fix it! I’ll let you know if I find anything.

Great news about the build starting, hope you manage to hurry the tiles along! We’re expecting to re-roof the house in a couple of months and hoping to stay lucky with materials. The world has gone mad with things right now, I’m trying to order 8 smoke detectors, admittedly fairly specific type, and I’ve been quoted May 23 delivery on them, how can that even be possible?

I used glue and tar spot remover, still a gooey and horrible job. Left it off after I’d had the car painted though, didn’t want to ruin the shiny under bonnet!

Well done, looks great in the photos 👍

Think I’ve got my original callipers kicking around the garage still Chris if you’re looking for something in a hurry.

It’s not a diff or driveshaft issue is it, I know you’ve done a lot to the car, have you mixed and matched parts and something’s getting loaded on lock? I’ve seen skippy diffs load up a lot on lock in the past too.

Parked my car at the local farm shop earlier then stood drooling over a 997 GT3 a few spaces down before I nipped in the shop. When I come out there’s a guy stood looking at the Corrado, “Love the car” he says, goes on to tell me he wanted one in the day but never had one etc etc. I get in to leave and he gets in his GT3, wish I’d realised, he might have done a straight swap!!!

ABS sensor ring slightly bent and catching a sensor, I had this.

I just checked the date on the photo, it was six years ago when the centre brake light went in although I must have had the fitting sat around for five or more years before that waiting for the opportunity to use it.

It's the original UK tailgate but we fitted a genuine US brake light assembly when I was having the car painted. Didn't use any template as I wanted it to finish flush with the tailgate rather than sitting proud as originally intended. There was a lot of discussion on here years ago about whether a third light should be mounted higher and a few fitted them in the top of the rear screen but I've always been of the opinion that it's a centre light that's the important addition, after all many OEM lights are fitted at almost the same level as the outer lights. I had the wiper hole welded up at the same time which freed up the spare wire I needed for the brake light, saved me threading another one through the tailgate!

It's the car park at the Welbeck farm shop and Notcutts garden centre on the A60 down from Worksop, it's our local shop and I'd just been to the butchers for things for breakfast.

Thanks, they definitely bring a smile to your face don't they. 350 miles over the last week, probably the most it's done in such a short time for over ten years!

This must be one of the least updated galleries on the forum, been here something like 15 years and not off the second page yet! Just liked the way it looked today!

Must be a day for Corrados, my mate sent a photo of a sherry pearl parked at Dunston garden centre Chesterfield today.

Cuckney to Langwith, blue Corrado coming towards me. We both flashed and waved. First time I’ve seen another C on the road while I’ve been driving mine in some years now, used to be a regular occurrence!

You must know the road from mine to Ollerton, I’m glad I ran out in the village before I got off into Sherwood Forest. The MFA claimed 41mpg on the drive to Huntingdon and back and 36mpg overall for the weeks’ miles which which worked out at 29mpg when I filled up Friday, I knew the MFA couldn’t be relied on but that’s not even close! We were out in it last night and again today, I’d like to try and use it more this summer…hopefully there’ll be no “throw in the towel” moments like last year. Our Corrado off the road spell was 2010 to 2018 so you’ll have to be blocked in a bit longer yet 😁

Might get it washed first, a week parked on a construction site has left it a bit grubby!

Put the Corrado back on the road last Sunday evening following a last minute decision middle of the afternoon! Drove it off the drive and ran out of petrol before I’d left the village (fuel had been pumped into the TT when there was a V-Power shortage!). After squeezing about 3 litres of E5 out of the lawnmower I was able to drive very slowly the ten or so miles to the Shell station for £105 of fresh V-Power. Monday morning with fingers crossed I set off down the A1 the 96 miles to work in Cambridgeshire and apart from having to mess with the brake light switch midweek in the hotel car park have enjoyed a pretty faultless few days away. It’s ready for a wash now but very happy with the season’s first run out!

Step 1, 7 groove pulley removed without too much grief, same can’t yet be said for the one in the new alternator!